I'm working on writing my very first borne shell program and I need some help. I think I'm pretty close to having this correct but I may be off. I think my actual program is coded correctly but the commands I use within it I think are what's throwing it off?
**Purpose of the program: To find all files in a directory that contain a given string.
This program runs with only 1 or 2 arguments. The first argument can only consist of upper/lower-case letters. This is the string that you'll be searching for within the directory. If only one command line argument is given you recursively search all files and subdirectories within your current working directory. You then output all files containing the search pattern.
If two arguments are supplied. The first one is still the same as above (the string you're searching for) but the second argument becomes the directory you want to search. Again, I need to output the files that contain the search pattern.
Obviously this involves checking the arguments to make sure they are valid. Argument 1 must be an upper/lower-case letter and argument 2 (if supplied) must be a relative/absolute pathname to an existing directory.
Here's what I have so far:
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Just want to know a few conversion tricks.
in Borne Shell, I have the line:
if test -s testmap
then
...
fi
## testmap is a filename and I wanna test whether it exists
## then do whatever
How can I convert that to C Shell?
I've tried:
if (test -s testmap) then
...
endif
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